Adrian is Auckland bureau chief for Aviation Week, based in New Zealand. He covers commercial aviation in the Asia-Pacific region.
Adrian was previously based in Aviation Week’s Washington office for nine years, writing for a range of the group’s publications and covering many aspects of the commercial aviation industry. He has won Australasian and international awards for his aviation writing.
Prior to joining Aviation Week in 2002, Adrian covered aviation industry and policy issues for two other publishing companies in Washington. He has also worked for newspapers in Texas and New Zealand, covering a wide range of topics. Adrian graduated from Auckland University with a degree in history and English in 1992.
The U.K. Competition Commission says it will be early 2008 before it decides the fate of BAA and whether to break up the Ferrovial-owned airport authority. There had been increasing speculation in the U.K. in recent days that the regulatory body would call for a breakup of BAA, which owns seven British airports: Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Southampton, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
Airbus and Boeing were neck-and-neck with 688 aircraft orders each at the end of July, statistics released yesterday show. Airbus recorded eight more orders in what was a relatively slow July for new sales. Boeing, meanwhile, added 10 more orders through Aug. 7 for a new total of 698, so at the end of July it had 688 net orders - the same as Airbus.
Seattle-Tacoma Airport is launching a trial of common-use ticketing kiosks, adding to the rapidly growing list of airports using these systems worldwide. The Seattle trial began this week, with seven common-use self-service kiosks. CUSS kiosks can be used by passengers to print out tickets from several airlines, instead of being devoted to a single carrier. According to IATA, CUSS units are now being used at 76 airports worldwide, not including the Seattle system.
